You cannot convert an mdb file to an exe file as these two are two seperate
entitites to be dealt with. I have also developed MS Access only
applications and the best thing I could do was to design a small VB Exe file
which would inturn call this mdb file. To make the user believe its a great
thing - meaning fool them, you could give a password screen for the VB exe
file created.

This will give a profressional look and yet maintain simplicity of the
designed application. You could also consider the other reply of the MDE
files to be created. I am not too sure of that method however.

Dear Vincent,
I read your message a few days back, can you pl. guide me how to create this
kind of VB.exe file or if possible send me readymade file with the
explanation on how to link with .mdb file.
I shall be highly thankful to you. You can send me file directly at
email@removed
thanks & regards..

For Access 2003 it is part of the Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System package. We had a very difficult time getting the correct software ordered (initially we were sent Visual Studio). Once we got over this hurdle, there is a fix that we had to do (check for a white paper on the Office Developer site - I'm not at my personal computer so I can't remember what was the exact problem). After these are complete, you can run the Package Wizard and it actually works fairly easy. The one problem we have encountered this year with the distributed runtime versions is if a computer that the app is installed on has an older version of Access, the installation process is changing/updating the Windows Registry so when the user opens a db made with an older version, they are having problems. The only work-around I found is reinstalling the original/older version of Access.